I didn't see an episode of House until years after I had been a fan of Laurie's comedy career. Imagine how hilarious it is to see one of your favorite comedians playing Dr. House.
@@jordlopez I haven't seen that movie since I was a wee lad, was he really in that? He was also Major -- de Coverley in the Hulu Catch-22 miniseries, which I quite liked. (It didn't follow the book too closely, which is alright since doing a one-to-one adaptation of that kind of book is practically impossible. Heller didn't mind things being changed in adaptation. In fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the 1970 movie adaptation, making him one of the seven people who did.)
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, I distinctly remember rewatching Stuart Little a few years back and being like: "House is his dad? Really?" And there was no way I could misremember such an anomaly lol
My grandfather’s battle blouse was shot clean thru the temple, yet the bullet bounced off his cigarette case which saved his life, but he was nevertheless killed 30 seconds later in his escape attempt because he was half blind and partially deaf with a penchant for tripping over chairs, but all of that was irrelevant as he promptly expired from a… Thus, a Fry & Laurie skit is born.
I never understood this observation. As House, he makes a drawn out meal out of every Amurican weurd. For excellent American accents done by Brits, Band of Brothers is the gold standard.
It's so odd hearing him talk about his grandfather, knowing from "Who Do You Think You Are?" that his maternal grandfather was an Austro-Hungarian Jew from Vienna, who emigrated to England. His name was Neumann.
For their time? They are exactly of their time. There was a lot of this style around then. They are out there for today, probably. Comedy is much more of the everyday now
@@sophitsa79 yeah I guess it’s how ya look at it or how I worded that haha. It just hits my funny bone different than comedians of my day and it pleases me :)
"I lost my sense of smell while forging the minutest details of a thousand Nazi documents" That's a line from al fresco, fry and Lori's 1983 series with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane.
Such a truely talented actor. Beautiful executed example of what the true meaning of the word 'dumb' actually means of which most do not know, yet wrongfully use everyday in every day speech.
Wow really? I thought it was common knowledge that dumb had a medical meaning as well. Surprising. But I guess knowledge is often seen as a negative these days.
If his grandfather wore the cigarette case on his temple he'd just have bits of tobacco in his brain instead of just lead. That's like 1.5mm sheet metal, an 8mm Mauser would go through that like a piece of tissue paper
Not just funny, but a talented comedy writer as well. He and Fry co-wrote these skits. Laurie's comedic timing in House is flawless, and his acceptance speeches at awards shows are hilarious.
a some point Hugh Laurie decided to stop playing comedy and started acting in serious roles. The first of those role I saw him was as the grumpy husband of a hysterical Emelda Staunon in Sense and Sensibility with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.
@@kamion53 Mr Palmer wasn't him deciding to stop doing comedy and doing serious roles - a) it's not a serious role (apart from the one line where he offers assistance to the Dashwoods, everything he does is deeply ironic; it's a comic part), b) that was filmed around the same time as the last series of ABOFAL, and he continued to do primarily comic roles for years after that, and c) he was invited to do it personally by Emma Thompson, his long-term friend (and former girlfriend) as basically a cameo.
In the Anglostate, Stephen Fry will be experimented on as our foremost scientists attempt to de-gay and de-Jew him so that he may one day rejoin society.
